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THIS WEEK INAMERICAN HISTORY

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RIDE SALLY RIDEAMERICA’S FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE

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Ride had applied to be an astronaut in1977 after seeing an announcement thatNASA was looking for young scientists toserve as mission specialists on its shuttleflights. Previous astronauts had been mili-tary test pilots but, by the late 70s, NASAwas branching out to scientists and tech-nicians to monitor the complex technologyof the shuttle. Eight thousand peopleresponded, one thousand of them women.Six women, among them Ride, were selectedfor a group of 35 new astronauts.

Ride initially thought she wanted to be aprofessional tennis player, but could notsucceed on the tour. Instead, she enrolledat Stanford University, graduating in 1973with degrees in physics and English. Sheearned a Ph.D. in astrophysics shortlybefore joining NASA.

As a mission specialist on the Challengermission, her responsibilities included testinga robot arm, which deployed and retrievedsatellites, assisting the commander andshuttle pilot during ascent, re-entry, andlanding, and acting as flight engineer. Thetrip took six days. Ride flew into space againin 1984. During an 8-day mission, thatcrew deployed the Earth Radiation Budgetsatellite, conducted scientific observationsof the Earth, and demonstrated the poten-tial for satellite refueling by astronauts.

Once her career as an astronaut was over,she continued her involvement in thefields of space and education. In 1986,she was part of the presidential commis-sion investigating the Challenger explosion.In 1987, she left NASA to accept a fellow-ship at the Stanford University Center forInternational Security and Arms Control.After two years, she was named Director ofthe California Space Institute and Profes-sor of Physics at the University of California,San Diego where she pursued a crusade toencourage young women to study scienceand math. In 2001, Ride founded SallyRide Science, a science content companydedicated to supporting girls’ and boys’interests in science, math and technology.She remains an advocate for improvedscience education and has written orcollaborated on five children’s booksabout space flight and the solar system.

Ride has received numerous awards,including the Jefferson Award for Publicservice, the Women's Research and Edu-cation Institute’s American Woman Award,and the National Spaceflight Medal.Inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fameat Kennedy Space Center. Of her historicfirst flight into space, she has said: “Thething that I’ll remember most… is that itwas fun. In fact, I’m sure it was the mostfun I'll ever have in my life.”

In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. Twenty-twoyears after the first manned space mission, Ride hopped aboard the

Challenger, the seventh space shuttle flight and immediately made history.

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CLICK HERE FOR A TIMELINE OF SALLY RIDE’S CAREER

HOT DOG!AMERICA’S FUN FOODS

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The definition of the hot dog — a moist cooked sausage of softeven texture often placed in a sliced bun with a condiment ofchoice — does not do this delicacy justice. In fact, American’shave had a love affair with the hot dog that, historians say,started on Coney Island when the sausage and bun first got to-gether around 1870. Or, say other historians, the hot dog firstshowed up sold on a bun the streets of St. Louis in 1880. Or werefirst served at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago or the 1904Louisiana Purchase Exposition, again in St. Louis.

HERE ARE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MENU:

New York Deli DogThis New York classic is typically grilled flat onthe griddle by delis and hot dog shops acrossthe City.

New York Street Cart The street cart-style hot dog is thevenerable Hebrew National All-Beef Kosher Frank, boiled andserved with onion sauce and deli mustard — or sauerkraut.

Chicago Red HotA beef frank on a poppy seed roll, “draggedthrough the garden,” with yellow mustard, sweetpickle relish, chopped onion, fresh tomato,pickle spear, sport peppers, and celery salt.

Rochester White Hot Made of pork, it is neither cured norsmoked. The result is an off-white color, a spicy taste andsmooth texture. Split and griddled, it is served on a toastedbun and topped with a hot sauce.

Dodger DogFrom Los Angeles, a pork frankfurter on asteamed foot-long bun with mustard and relish.

Fenway Frank Boiled and grilled Fenway-style, the FenwayFrank is served on a New England-style bun and covered withmustard and relish.

Milwaukee BratNot a hot dog, but a bratwurst, the MilwaukeeBrat is made with a pork and beef brat, grilled anddipped in a secret sauce, served on a crusty roll,topped with sauerkraut and spicy brown mustard.

Cincinnati Cheese Coney Based on the original Coney Islanddog, this has a renowned chili topping — over chili, mildcheddar cheese, diced onions, and mustard.

Texas Corn Dog A popular favorite throughout the south. Thisall-beef frank is dipped in a corn batter and fried crisp.Served with mustard and coleslaw.

Whatever the truth of itsorigins, this country tookthe hot dog to heart andhas made it part of our cus-toms and rituals. Indeed,statistically, hot dogs areamong America's favoritefoods. Every year, Americansconsume on average 60 hotdogs! Hot dogs are primarilyregarded as a fun, summer-time food, and most areeaten between MemorialDay and Labor Day.

Not surprisingly, there hasbeen a long associationbetween hot dogs and thenational pastime — no,not American Idol — butMajor League Baseball.In recognition of that, afew years back the BaseballHall of Fame and Museum,as part of its groundbreakingBaseball As America exhibi-tion, served a lineup ofclassic, jumbo, and foot-long franks that includedten different dogs popularwith baseball fans aroundthe country.

90 HOT DOG RECIPESFROM BOBBY FLAY,RACHAEL RAY ANDOTHERS

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COMMODOREJOHN BARRY

PORTRAIT BY GILBERT STUART

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The Commodore was born into apoor tenant family in Ireland in1745. At 14, he immigrated toPhiladelphia, where he became acabin boy, then seaman, then mate,and earned command of a schoonerby age 21. Soon thereafter, hegraduated to the captaincy of biggerships. When the RevolutionaryWar came, he was made captainof the Lexington, one of two shipsowned by the colonies and namedafter the first battle of the revolu-tion. He became the first com-mander of the new naval servicein December 1775.

Barry showed exceptional prowessin battle, and in quick succession,he was the first to capture a Britishwar vessel on the high seas; hecaptured two British ships afterbeing severely wounded in aferocious sea battle; he quelledthree mutinies; he fought on land

at the Battles of Trenton andPrinceton; he captured over 20ships including an armed Britishschooner in the lower Delaware;he authored a Signal Book whichestablished a set of signals usedfor effective communication betweenships; and he fought the last navalbattle of the American Revolutionaboard the frigate Alliance in 1783.

After the war, Barry was namedhead of the U.S. Navy and becamea well-known advocate for increasingthe new nation’s naval presence. In1797, the first USS United Stateswas launched under the commandof the now Commodore Barry. Thisvessel would serve as his flagship.He was commander-in-chief of allAmerican warships in the battlewith France (1798 to 1800), servedon active duty until 1801, andremained as head of the Navy untilhis death in 1803.

THE FORGOTTEN FATHER OF THE NAVY

Overshadowed in history by his more famous contemporaryJohn Paul Jones, Commodore John Barry is said by the experts

to be equal to Jones in nautical skill and daring, but even more in-fluential in nurturing of a permanent American Navy. Barry

was dubbed “Father of the American Navy” by his own generation.

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Located in Washington DC, the National Mall is a significant and symbolic centralaxis of the District’s monumental core. Designed by L’Enfant in 1791, The Mallwas to be the foremost avenue of the city — the so-called “Grand Avenue” —running west from the Capitol to a point directly south of the President's Housewhere its terminus would be crowned by an equestrian statue of GeorgeWashington.During the 19th century, this formal design for the Mall was largely forgotten.During the Civil War, the Mall grounds were used for military purposes and slaugh-tering cattle. In 1872, a large tract was given to the Baltimore and PotomacRailroad for a depot, and the railroad laid tracks across part of the Mall.

Years passed. Then in 1902, the Federal government launched a plan forrestoration and development of the “Grand Avenue” ideal. The core of the Mallwas to be a broad grass carpet, typical of those in Europe, 300' in breath andrunning the entire length of the Mall grounds, bordered on each side by rows ofAmerican elm trees. Public buildings were to border the whole, separated fromthe elms by narrow roadways. The railroad station was removed from the areain 1909. Today, The Mall more or less follows this pattern and is lined with anumber of museums and government buildings.

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The Washington MonumentThis tower honors the first

president, and is the tallest

structure in the nation's

capital at 555 feet above the

National Mall.

Smithsonian MuseumsThis federal institution has

multiple museums, ten

of which are on the Mall.

Included are the ever-popular

Smithsonian Air and Space

Museum and the Hirshhorn

Museum and Sculpture Garden.

National Gallery of ArtA first-rate art museum with a

large collection of masterpieces

including paintings, drawings,

prints, photographs, sculpture,

and decorative arts from the

13th century to the present.

AMONG TODAY’S MANY MAJOR ATTRACTIONS ARE:

U.S. Holocaust Memorial MuseumThis recent addition to the Mall was conceived to perpetuate the memory of the victims of the

World War II Holocaust. It is one of the most visited sites.

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The Castle Formally known as the Smithsonian Building, thisGothic Revival building built of local Seneca sandstone wasnamed for James Smithson, an Englishman who willed his entirefortune to the U.S. for the dissemination of knowledge.

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U.S. Botanical GardenA state-of-the-art indoors

garden showcasing thousands

of seasonal, tropical and

subtropical plants.

Scattered throughout mall are historic landmarks honoringthe presidents, the founding fathers and war veterans. Thenewest is the World War II Memorial, the only commemo-ration of a 20th Century event on the central axis.

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The U.S. Capitol Building Here is where the House of Representatives and the Senate meet.

National Museum of the American IndianThe first national museum in the countrydedicated exclusively to Native Americans.

Department of AgricultureThis was built in 1905 and designed by

Rankin, Kellogg and Crane. This was the first

building constructed on the Mall after the

decision to rejuvenate the Mall.

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This year’s celebration takes placeJanuary 18. Last year, the holidaytook on a special meaning asPresident-elect Barack Obamaspent his pre-Inaugural eveningas a volunteer at a youth homelessshelter as part of his 2009 MartinLuther King Day observance.

The campaign for a federal holiday

in King’s honor began soon after his

assassination. The positive reasons

for the holiday were obvious. Two

arguments by opponents — that a paid

holiday for federal employees would

be too expensive and that a holiday

to honor a private citizen would be

contrary to longstanding tradition —

slowed the process. But public and

corporate sentiment supported the

move and six million signatures were

collected on a petition to Congress,

said to be the largest petition in favor

of an issue in American history, in

support of the law.

Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into

law in 1983 in a White House Rose

Garden ceremony, and it was first

observed in 1986. The bill established

the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal

Holiday Commission to oversee obser-

vance of the holiday, and Coretta Scott

King — the widow of the honoree —

was made a member of this commission

for life by President George Bush, the

elder. The holiday is widely observed

with a day off for schools, businesses

and non-profits, educational lesson

plans are built around King’s teachings

and the history of the civil rights move-

ment in the United States, and it is

celebrated by many individuals and

groups as a day of service.

This relatively recent holiday is one of only four United States FederalHolidays to commemorate an individual. Observed on the third Monday of

January each year, it honors Reverend King who, almost needless to say, wasthe chief spokesperson for the civil rights movement and non-violent activismto achieve it. King was assassinated in 1968, which bound him forever in theminds of Americans with the similar deaths of John and Robert Kennedy.

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1999.The impeachment trial of Bill Clinton began in the U.S. Senate to

consider whether he should be removed from office. Then Chief

Justice William Rehnquist presided. It was the first such trial in

130 years, and the Senate ultimate decided that the perjury and

obstruction of justice charges did not warrant impeachment.

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